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The villagers expected to see only the man's bones or half-eaten body. But still they had come to make quite sure of the man's fate. What was their delight, then, to hear a shout, as soon as the tiger family had been driven away! The shout came from the tree. It was from the man who had been carried away by the tiger.
Elodie loathed domestic ideals. "Mon vieux," she would declare, "I had enough sewing in my young days. My idea of happiness would be a world without needles and thread." He noted in her, too, a curious want of house-pride. Dust gave her no great concern. She rather loved a litter of periodicals, chiffons, broken packets of cigarettes, tobacco and half-eaten fruit on the tables.
She must have overslept, but we made so much noise she is surely awake by this time.” Marcia left her half-eaten breakfast and went slowly upstairs.
Waiting for what? The future only would show. But each moment is a future, till it becomes the present. While the regiment still breakfasted it became conscious of a monotonous sound, growing steadily in volume. Then came the tap of the drum, and the regiment rose from a half-eaten meal, and lined up as if on parade. Several of the members remarked crossly: "Why couldn't they wait ten minutes?"
"But Five Pounds!" said the step-daughter, an argumentative young woman of six-and-twenty. Mr. Cave's answers were wretched; he could only mumble weak assertions that he knew his own business best. They drove him from his half-eaten supper into the shop, to close it for the night, his ears aflame and tears of vexation behind his spectacles. Why had he left the crystal in the window so long?
Mollie had stolen a half-eaten piece of toast from his plate one morning, and measured the gap with an inch tape, to his everlasting embarrassment, so that the pictured memorial was hailed with delight.
Terry looked away; Jericho vanished below, with vague plans about a great supper. Biler gazed upon Louisbourg with a pensive eye and a half-eaten turnip. "I knowed you'd be back, little un," said Zac; "I felt it; an', now you've come, don't go away agin." "O, but I haf to go to ze comtesse," said Margot; "zat ees to-day " "Go back to the countess!
O Brahmana, the cord of virana roots that thou seest we are hanging by, is the cord representing our multiplied race. And, O Brahmana, these threads of the cord of virana roots that thou seest as eaten away, are ourselves who have been eaten up by Time. This root thou seest hath been half-eaten and by which we are hanging in this hole is he that hath adopted asceticism alone.
The place was covered with human bones, the ground dyed with their blood, and great pieces of flesh left here and there, half-eaten, mangled, and scorched; and, in short, all the tokens of the triumphant feast they had been making there, after a victory over their enemies.
'Pa's a minister, you know, and nothing but good young men come to our house; they're all so horrid, viciously, 'I hate 'em. Vandeloup laughed so much at this that Kitty rose to her feet and looked offended. 'I don't know what you are laughing at, she said, throwing her half-eaten apple out of the door; 'but I don't believe you're a good young man. You look awfully bad, seriously.
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